full screen
Home > Literature & literary studies > Poetry > Poetry anthologies (various poets) > Stone & Type, Cedar
Stone & Type, Cedar

Stone & Type, Cedar


     0     
5
4
3
2
1



Out of Stock


Notify me when this book is in stock
About the Book

Poetry. Writing at the seams of political, ecological, and cultural collapse, Allegrezza hunts among the remains, seeking in the nonhuman world--cedar, rocks, prairie grass, sky--for signs of a world that was, of a world to still to come: 'we have been arguing for consistency / without wanting to rework the system.' Against dread, inertia, exhaustion, Allegrezza asks, how do we adapt, find a way back or in--'the natural response is motion, but i am hard / stuck with hands full, / wondering what happened.' The poems map a progress of mind, of being in the world. Shedding the rotten words pulled up by the torrent, in order to 'to find / a space to reconstruct the / sentence.' What role does language have in face of catastrophe? No longer able to count on words, the poet refocuses attention outward, to go on or into: 'not a home but a / way to become someone, / the prairie is a place to listen / with green absence.' A letting go, not into despair, but toward evolution: 'words, like guides / to a city we've never seen.'--Marthe Reed

William Allegrezza is 'looking outward, not inward, ' 'searching the stones for life, ' 'trying to / build grottos / with story, ' and alert 'as the patterns of / chaos emerge.' This is a book by an experimental poet who eschews capitalization but not sense, linear narrative but not significant story, allusion but not reference. He tells us, in a brilliant pun that helps us understand the 'enthymic logic' of this book, that meanings 'allude' him. In other words, while the book's ostensible gaze is toward the outside world ('sunless trees, ' 'rocks piled / as breaker / and dock, ' 'colder / water that / brings debris, ' 'concrete falling from old bridges, ' rusted letters on a 'restaurant sign'), its true subject is the self and its relationships ('i am attuned for once / to treat a person as / a shifting ritual consequence'). Looking outward is a kind of looking inward and that's why for Allegrezza, and also for Emerson who makes a brief appearance in one of the poems, looking outward and looking inward 'look the same. 'I'm not uncovering anything, ' writes this poet, 'so much as commenting on my own / distance for clear voices.' Now that's a self-assessment, and this is a book of poetry, worth taking very seriously.--Bill Y


Best Sellers



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781944884673
  • Publisher: Lavender Ink
  • Publisher Imprint: Lavender Ink
  • Height: 221 mm
  • No of Pages: 86
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 194488467X
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 141 gr


Similar Products

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS      0     
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
Stone & Type, Cedar
Lavender Ink -
Stone & Type, Cedar
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

Stone & Type, Cedar

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Booksbay (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Booksbay, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Booksbay (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Booksbay a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Booksbay may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Booksbay's sole discretion. Booksbay reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Booksbay's website that Booksbay deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Booksbay does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Booksbay to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Booksbay reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Booksbay, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Booksbay, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    New Arrivals



    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!